0.25%

The UK key lend­ing rate set in Au­gust

The Bank of Eng­land has scrapped plans to cut in­ter­est rates and said they could move in ei­ther di­rec­tion as it ramped up its fore­casts for growth and in­fla­tion in 2017 fol­low­ing ster­ling’s slide af­ter the Brexit vote.